Yeah, I was confused for a minute, since I remembered this one where we have what looks to be the same person with a different name and acting quite male. Then I remembered another one and realized that Angel must be the one on the right. Do I win a cookie?

Ace has a broader face, higher eyelids, squarer nose, and lighter skin, but they both have the same hair cut/colour so I can get the mixup (plus it took me forever to get Ace’s face right so he looks different in the first bunch of times he shows up). Ace is kinda based on Daniel Dae Kim, Angel is more Lee Van Cleef (Angel is short for “Angel Eyes”). I try to have characters with really distinctly different features so they stand out from each other even if I let the models kinda drift, but I realized when I started drawing Angel a bunch that I chose similar features to highlight on both of them because there are similar features that stand out to me on both of those actors, and made an effort to push them further apart and emphasize that they have different eye, mouth, nose, and jaw shapes. Tryin’ to learn from my shortcomings and do better in the future.

Huh. For some reason, I always assumed the visual similarity was semi-intentional; since they’re all tube-grown any,ways, it would make sense for the space-future scientists to re-use certain genes if they have the desired effect on the person that comes out, which would result in the corresponding phenotypes repeating themselves too (within certain variance). I think that’s still going to be my headcanon.

We used to do a thing in boy scouts called the Klondike Derby, go up on top of some local mountains in early febuary with 5-8 ft of snow, build snow shelters then in the morning compete in various events: first aid, orienteering, knot tying, ect, have a cook off, and finish it off with a sled race. I imagine their survival derby to be something similar, but probably more deadly and summery.

I realized a while ago that supersoldiers never have any other skills aside from killing people and being strong and survivory. Don’t they have hobbies? Duke is pretty much the only one who seems to do something aside from killing aliens, even if it’s sexist and brutish. Master Chief doesn’t knit or anything, Gears of War guys only ever mention being married, Solid Snake only smokes in his free time, Naked Snake actually spends all of his free time building armies…

Don’t they live at all outside from their soldiering activities?

Therefore I’m happy that Coela’s comic exists that shows just how much these supersoldiers struggle to do anything aside from violence. And that all the characters have more depth to their personality. So yeah, being a helluva jam maker is actually a lot more character depth than these guys normally get. :D

It has been hinted that Solid Snake and Naked Snake smoke weed (with all that herbal ciggies that slow down time) but that is hardly a hobby.

The only tough guy I could think of is JC Denton (that I could speak with any authority of) and his character development could be described as; “a guy with an inability to emote with a body modification kink”.

I seem to recall that in DX:HR part of the backstory featured Jensen as getting really into clockmaking which doubled as sort of physiotherapy which helped him get used to his augmentations, from everything from just using them to begin with, to being really full of finesse and precision, given the requirements of the hobby/profession. if you look at the inside of his apartment, aside from the big hidden ammo stash behind his TV and the cereal boxes next to his bathroom (featuring the number one cereal of 2027 I want to try: Augmen-choos) you’ll note a huge table full of gears and bits with a readable manual for clockmaking.
/Sperg Mode disengaged

Survival Derby thing… O.O No freaking way!
Just had a weekend of Derby and went to an event called….. Sur5al! And we do it at least twice a year! You have just blown my mind, and made an excellent end to my long weekend.

I relate to this pretty hardcore (despite having ladyparts myself). It’s my strawberry preserves that people keep me around for, not my firearms or ability to carry a tire iron like it weighs next to nothing!

When I was doing my obligatory conscript service in the army, I was the only one with a pan. After all, the cooking kit we had on us was terrible and unlike the stuff provided by the army, we didn’t have to meticulously clean our personal stuff after returning to base. Also, the food cooked on the pan tasted billion times better than the same food cooked in the kit.

After I made pancakes one morning, EVERYONE suddenly wanted to borrow my pan. Even the rank and file officers present. So yeah, I was the guy with the pan and I know what you mean.